Claiming India : French scholars and the preoccupation with India during the nineteenth century

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    • Mohan, Jyoti

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Claiming India : French scholars and the preoccupation with India during the nineteenth century

Jyoti Mohan

SAGE : YODA Press, 2018

  • : HB

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Claiming India : French scholars and the preoccupation with India in the nineteenth century

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Most of us grew up with the knowledge that India had been a British colony-the jewel in the crown of the Raj. Even those with slightly deeper knowledge who knew that France had once been a contender for the Indian empire consider it a romantic interlude between the Mughals and their self-proclaimed Anglo-successors. Yet our ideas about India, fundamentally wrought from the colonial recasting of knowledge in strictly 'Western' categories-religion, history, politics, economy, mythology, and even the modern self-conception of race (Aryan v/s Dravidian)-were drawn from the studies of French Indologists. So France, a failed temporal conqueror, had actually conquered 'India'-the idea. This book traces the process by which France 'claimed India' by defining India through caste, history, race and religion. The obvious question is, of course, why? Why did France invest all this energy, time, and money into defining an area she no longer controlled politically? To challenge the British? To demonstrate her own commitment to the 'civilizing mission'? This book demonstrates how France's fascination with India stemmed from all of these motives, as well as being a key component of her own national self-definition in the nineteenth century.

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Acknowledgements Introduction: The Last King of France Found in India? India: A Land of Wonders or of Monstrosities? The Writings of Missionaries The 'Sublime' Civilization of India: The Pre-occupation of Philosophes The Business of Serious Academics: Indology and the Study of India The Era of Empiricism and the Rise of Philology The Glory of Ancient India Stems from her Aryan Blood: The Development of 'Scientific Anthropology' in Relation to India Recasting India in French Indology: Hinduism and the Caste System Writing Histories, Creating 'India' Imperial Showcase: The Visual Presentation of 'India' CONCLUSION : WAS INDIA REALLY 'FRENCH' ? Index

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